A study from Lerner Children's Pavilion at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) of nearly 2,000 children showed that pediatric ...

Objectives: Although generally effective for sedation during noninvasive procedures, dexmedetomidine as the sole agent has not been uniformly successful for invasive procedures. To overcome some ...

and that the drug should be administered only by persons trained in the administration of general anesthesia and not involved in the surgical/diagnostic procedure. (For sedation of intubated ...